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Enclosure: Estimate of Provisions and Table of Distances for New Jersey Magazines, 29 October 1776
Enclosure
Estimate of Provisions and Table of Distances
for New Jersey Magazines
[c.29 October 1776]
An Estimate of the Magazines to be laid in at the following Posts for the Subsistance1 of the Troops and for the Horses in Waggons and Artillery.
bbl Flour |
Beef & Pork |
Tons of Hay |
Bushl Grain |
|
2000 Men at Fort Lee for Five Months | 3100 | 3100 | 300 | 10000 |
At Hackinsack for the Use of the Hospital2 allowing fresh Provisions to supply the rest | 1000 | 300 | 150 | 1500 |
At Equacanaugh [Acquacknack] to furnish the Troops at Elizabeth Town and Newark and to subsist the Main Army in passing to Philadelphia | 3000 | 3000 | 300 | 10000 |
At Springfield a Weeks Provision for 20000 Men on their Way to Philadelphia | 700 | 700 | 50 | 1500 |
At Boundbrook the Same | 700 | 700 | 50 | 1500 |
At Prince Town the Same | 700 | 700 | 50 | 1500 |
At Trentown to subsist 20000 Men for three Months | 3000 | 3000 | 300 | 10000 |
12200 | 11500 | 1200 | 36000 |
N.B. | From Fort Lee to Hackinsack by new Bridge3 | 9 | Miles | Water Carriage from this place |
from Hackinsack to Equacanaugh | 5 | Miles | Do | |
from Equacanaugh to Springfield | 16 | Miles | 7 Miles to a Landing at Newark | |
from Springfield to Boundbrook | 19 | Miles | 7 Miles to a Landing at Brunswick | |
from Boundbrook to princetown | 20 | Miles | 12 Miles Land Carriage to Daleware River | |
from Prince Town to Trentown | 12 | Miles. | Water Carriage to Philadelphia |
N.B. In the above calculation an Allowance is made for Supplying the Troops passing and Repassing from the different States.
N. Greene
DS, DLC:GW.
1. The copyist inadvertently wrote “Subsistancee” on the manuscript.
2. On orders from GW Dr. John Morgan recently had set up a general hospital at Hackensack to care for sick and wounded Continental soldiers (see , xxii-xxiii, xxx-xxxi, 15–16, 46–47, 142–43).
3. New Bridge was on the Hackensack River about two miles north of the town of Hackensack.